IYSA Nutrition - Doctor Led Nutrition for Women & Families

IYSA Nutrition - Doctor Led Nutrition for Women & Families Dr Akanksha Sharma (MBBS, MD) is a preventive health physician, family nutrition specialist, and the founder of IYSA Nutrition.

She provides evidence-based nutrition guidance for families who want science-backed answers, not guesswork.

06/04/2026

đŸš« Children are NOT mini adults.
And their breakfast plate shouldn’t look like yours.
Stop serving these 10 breakfasts to kids regularly and know what to do instead 👇

1. Fruit juice (even “fresh”)
It’s liquid sugar with the fibre stripped out. Kids don’t need it. Whole fruit, always.

2. Low-fat or diet variants
Fat is essential for a growing brain. “Light” yogurt, skimmed milk, not for children under 5.

3. Store-bought granola bars
Marketed as “healthy breakfast.” Often 30–40% sugar. Read the label. You’ll be surprised.

4. Flavoured oats / instant porridge packets
The plain version is ok. The flavoured version? Hidden sugar, artificial flavouring, and very little nutrition left.

5. White bread + jam/Nutella
Zero fibre, high glycaemic index, sugar spike before school. Sets up a crash before 10am.

6. “Multigrain” packaged biscuits
This one surprises people: “multigrain” on the label means almost nothing without checking the ingredient list. Most are still refined flour with food colour.

7. Packaged cornflakes + milk
A classic. But plain cornflakes have minimal protein and spike blood sugar fast. Add a protein source or switch to whole grain options.

8. Vegetable-flavoured puffs or makhana as a standalone
Light, popular, easy but not a meal. Children need calorie and nutrient density at breakfast, not just volume.

9. Adult protein powders in milk
Please no. Formulated for adults, not calibrated for a child’s kidneys or growth stage. Use food-first protein.

10. “Healthy” smoothies with lots of fruit and little fat/protein
High in natural sugars, low in satiety. Without fat and protein, hunger returns in 45 minutes and focus suffers

Follow the page and comment ‘BREAKFAST’ for 10 nourishing and easy breakfast recipes for kids along with portions and macros for growing children.

17/03/2026

Home is the place where relationship with food is built.
Brick by brick
Meal by meal
One snack at a time
Every single day

The way we eat at home has changed.
- In US, 60-70% of a child’s total calories are coming from ultra processed food (NCHS data 2025)
- ⁠56.4% of India’s total disease burden is caused by unhealthy diet (ICMR 2024)
- ⁠Ultra processed snack market has grown from under a billion $ to 40 billion $ in just 13 years.
- ⁠Childhood obesity has increased from ~4% in 1975 to ~20% in 2022

For the first time in history, obesity has overtaken undernutrition in many regions.

So, what do we do?
Peer reviewed research suggests that restriction doesn’t work. If children see the food engineered to highjack their taste receptors, they want to eat that and if they don’t get it, they crave even more.

So what’s the solution? It’s changing what they see at home, keeping real food at eye level, eating healthy nourishing meals yourself because children don’t do what is told, they do what they see.

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